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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
The 1599 German text with a new English translation, introduction, glossary, and notes.
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The 1599 Errata: Collation · Part 2
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum: The 1599 Errata: Collation
p. 199p. 16
viel mehr / lin. 16. — Line 16 reads sondern es wehren mehr VNIVERSALIA / dann Eins. Corrected to vielmehr; adopted.
p. 38
ein für eln. lin. 16. — Line 16 reads Wolte sich eln ignorant sein scheffen entschüldigen. Corrected to ein; adopted.
p. 51
Materialium für Metallorum. lin. 20. — Line 20 reads de MATERIA rerum omnium metallorum PRIMA. Corrected to Materialium; adopted. The correction bears on the argument: at this step the claim concerns the first matter of all material things, and the narrower claim about metals follows only on p. 52.
p. 53
Catholisch verborgen / lin. 21. — Line 21 as printed begins verborgen stecken. The entry gives only the corrected reading and does not name what it replaces; Catholisch is supplied before verborgen, without which the two participial phrases — Naturlich begriffen sein, verborgen stecken — have nothing to join them. Adopted and marked.
p. 69
Recht præparirte Sal Tartarij vnd Sal. Armeniacs. in marg. — The margin of p. 69 reads Sol Armeniaci. Corrected to Sal; adopted. The entry’s own Armeniacs ends in a long s, a sort that cannot stand in final position: it is a wrong letter for i, and the page being corrected settles the word.
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum argues that alchemy has one universal subject, that this subject cannot be extracted from the metals, and that nothing in the work can begin without recognizing it. This complete reader begins with the supplied seven-part introduction and orientation, then presents every printed page of the 1599 German treatise opposite its new English translation.
Historical Text and Translation
The German reading text is a fresh diplomatic transcription from 600 dpi images of the Magdeburg copy printed by Johann Bötcher in 1599. It preserves Khunrath’s capitalization, word division, authorial marginal keys, glosses, errata, and three unnumbered closing pages: the errata leaf, owl emblem, and colophon.
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Diotimos Editions prepared the new English translation, introduction, notes, glossary, collation, and editorial apparatus. The translation follows Khunrath directly, retaining his technical vocabulary, changes of register, repetitions, rhetorical questions, and distinctions between German, Latin, and coined terms.
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Heinrich Khunrath’s 1599 German work is in the public domain. The 2026 English translation, introduction, notes, glossary, editorial arrangement, and related matter are original to this edition and remain © 2026 Diotimos.